Utah Fetal Center and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital received Last week, a $ 15 million grant to enhance center fetal care and surgery for pregnant women. The grant also renamed the center to Grant Scott Bonham Fetal Center, named after the donor’s fetuses Brad and Megan Bonham.
This gift will help establish the first specialized fetal care center in the state. This allows Primary Children to “become a national leader in comprehensive fetal care, including complex surgery.
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This grant is part of Intermountain’s “Primary Promise” and builds a “model medical system for children in the country.” press release.. The initiative is committed to investing more than $ 500 million in pediatric-specific projects and facilities servicing Intermountain West.
This effort has impacted another $ 50 million gift to initiate an initiative from philanthropist Gail Miller, Larry H. Miller Group Owner and Board Chairman, and Intermountain Healthcare Board Chairman. I did.
Katie Welky, CEO of Primary Children’s Hospital and Vice President of Intermountain Children’s Children’s, said: health.
Intermountain has committed half of the $ 500 million in this effort and has allocated the Intermountain Foundation to fund the rest of the effort through philanthropic support. This represents the greatest funding commitment to children’s health since the inception of Primary Children in the early 20th century.
This effort includes three main elements:
- Strengthen the Primary Children’s Hospital through advanced fetal care, NICU expansion, and cancer treatment expansion.
- Expand children’s care across the Inter-Mountain West by building a second Primary Children’s Hospital in Lehi and bringing specialized care closer to the Wasatch Front family.
- By expanding mental and behavioral health services for children and teens, and expanding the teen-to-adult transition program for children with severe conditions such as diabetes and cystic fibrosis, children’s Targeting new health needs.
“It’s time to improve the health of our children, families and communities at all levels,” said Dr. Marc Harrison, President and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, a pediatric emergency physician. “We are humble and honored to have provided this innovative gift to the Miller family so that Intermountain Healthcare can provide the best care for children wherever they are. We manage this precious gift for the sole benefit of our children and hope that it will help others join us and realize this once-in-a-generation opportunity. increase.”
